Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:04:16 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 230837] x11-servers/xorg-server: make install fails for xorg-server-1.18.4_9,1 Message-ID: <bug-230837-7141-WlFObF1qkH@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-230837-7141@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-230837-7141@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D230837 --- Comment #4 from Adrian Bocaniciu <a.bocaniciu@computer.org> --- The sequence of events leading to this failure was the following: 1. Soon after installing FreeBSD 11-RELEASE some time in 2016, I have insta= lled xorg-server, I believe it was 1.17.something and I have used with an NVIDIA card and with XFCE. 2. Some time ago the NVIDIA card was removed. Now I needed again to connect= a monitor and I tried to install x11-drivers/xf86-video-ast 3. Attempting to install a new video driver failed with an error message sa= ying that the installed xorg-server is no longer supported and that I must updat= e it ASAP 4. Attempting to install the current xorg-server failed and the previous xorg-server was deinstalled 5. Now, after deinstalling the previous xorg-server, its dependencies are orphaned and I see a lot of *proto ports The *proto ports no longer exist in /usr/ports so I cannot do "make deinsta= ll'. "pkg autoremove" also failed to remove most of the *proto orphaned ports. I seldom use pkg, so I have been surprised by its behavior. Doing "pkg dele= te" on one of the *proto also removed some ports that do not depend on xorg-ser= ver, e.g. firefox, which was used over VNC, without xorg-server. Now I will have= to reinstall those. After deleting the orphaned ports and after a few other hiccups, e.g. having from time to time to deinstall various ports and/or having to delete their options from /var/db/ports, I have eventually succeeded to install xorg-ser= ver. I have been using FreeBSD for more than 20 years, since 2.0, but I have nev= er paid much attention to how the dependencies are checked, because usually it just works. Now I have noticed that in FreeBSD the presence of some files belonging to = the required ports is checked, unlike in all the other operating systems which = I am using, where what is checked is the presence of the ports listed as dependencies (in the installed ports database). It is debatable which method is better. I believe that with the FreeBSD met= hod it is more difficult to handle dependencies of certain versions of some por= t or to handle the case when you need to have simultaneously installed many vers= ions of the same port. In any case, this particular bug could not happen in a system where the presence of xorgproto would have been checked, instead of checking the pres= ence of some files which were also provided by obsolete ports which do not exist= any more in /usr/ports. I believe that in this special case, the Makefile for xorg-server should do some check for the presence of xorgproto, to avoid the confusion of the use= rs. There was no way for me to guess which might have been the reason why xorg-server fails to be installed. I do not know which is the UPDATING referred by you. "/usr/src/UPDATING" do= es not contain any information about xorg-server. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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